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As part of their graduation requirements, all students majoring in Quantitative Social Science must complete and present an independent research project. These projects are either honors theses or one quarter projects. This year, ten QSS students have written theses, and they are defending their research this week and next. All QSS thesis defenses are public, and the presentation schedule for Spring 2019 is as follows.

Yusaku Horiuchi, QSS Steering Committee member, Professor of Government and Mitsui Professor of Japanese Studies, was recently invited by Chiba University in Japan to give a special lecture, "Introduction to Data Science." About 80 first-year students in the college of liberal arts and sciences attended. The talk covered Professor Horiuchi's recent articles and various ways to collect and analyze quantitative data to study...

The Program in Quantitative Social Science (QSS) at Dartmouth College seeks a scholar for a tenure-track appointment as Assistant Professor, to be appointed as early as July 1, 2020. QSS is an interdisciplinary program that integrates modern statistical, computational, and mathematical tools with social science. We welcome applications from scholars working in applied methods whose work advances knowledge in social science broadly construed. Applicants should demonstrate strong, applied...